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Bad loan risk from related firms likely; IndusInd, YES Bank vulnerable: UBS

Markets took note of the development with the banking stocks being the worst performers in trade on Thursday

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Puneet Wadhwa New Delhi
Negative news-flow just doesn’t seem to be getting over for the Indian banking and finance sector, which is already reeling under liquidity issues triggered by crisis at IL&FS in 2018, and was followed by issues at YES Bank and the more recent turn of events at Dewan Housing Finance Company (DHFL). 

A recent report by global research and brokerage house, UBS, suggests that the next level of risk could appear from leveraged corporates' inter-related companies (their network).

UBS, which expects the NPL cycle to be extended due to the emergence of new stressed accounts, studied 5,600 companies and their links

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